hey cam try to move the engine over as far as the extractors will allow even notching the chassis rail & cut & shut engine mounts to suit , ie engine off centre line to give more breathing space for carbs

I hadn’t found anything in past searches, but as I lifted the ports at the same time I decided to make my own.My old manifold was a Lynx and the rear port did travel rearward a bit. Looking at the Redline manifold, it seems to be a bit better in that instance.Danny will know for sure and probably has a few.Sorry can’t help much more than that.

800 aint bad in my books if you consider it's a billet and a redline is 300 plus a lot of work to get it right. I may be interested Danny, where you planning on having it machined to clear the large body dissy's?

Both the ones mentioned above are the mangoletsi ones which if you get the ruler out and measure up in the engine bay you will see almost put the trumpets on the inner guard. How they sell them to suit escorts I don't understand. The redline ones are a good fit.

Cam The M181 Lynx manifold I've got has a 79mm runner length (centreline)The #4 runner is angled rearward by 8mm (measured from the 38mm port edge to the 45mm carb edge, or the centreline is 4.5mm to the rear)Hopefully the picture will make sense.As for the longer manifold, you could run shorter ram tubes and a slimline filter ??Its the overall combined runner length that is important and it does make a difference.

The Lynx manifolds have improved over the years as the early ones had a tinge of red in them from the recycled Coke cans and had a lot of problems with porosity but the Redline is a copy of the old Warneford which was the best of the lot

The Lynx manifolds have improved over the years as the early ones had a tinge of red in them from the recycled Coke cans and had a lot of problems with porosity but the Redline is a copy of the old Warneford which was the best of the lot

Mine has a tinge of yellow, is that from the barbwire beer cans ??

CamMy new manifold has the carbs centred over the ports and the rear runner is only 5.5mm fwd of centreline.So between both manifolds the rear runner has only moved fwd by 10mm, would that give the filter enough clearance in your case ??